BOULANGER'S SHAME.

Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 172, 23 July 1890, Page 5

BOULANGER'S SHAME.

DOCUMENT!. LEFT BY HIS OLD

MISTRESS.

SHE TAKES FRENCH LEAVE TO

ESCAPE ARREST.

Paris, June 21.—A warrant has been issued for the arresb of bhe noborious Mme. Juliette Pourpe, who played so important a role in connection with the Boulanger mania. The charges made against her include that of obtaining goods under false pretences and forgery. Her features are so wellknown* chat her escape is regarded as impossible, and her trial will doubtless be used for the purpose of dragging si ill deeper in the mire the once honoured name of France's General.

Madame Pourpe is the owner of the most universally known house! of ill repute in Paris. She is certainly one of the most extraordinary women of the age, and has played a prominent part in many of the political intrigues of the last few years in France. She accompanied General Boulanger to Tunis, when he was in command of the French army there, and lived with him in tlie mosb flagranb and open manner as his wife. When he became Minisber of War he spenb mosb of his leisure hours in her company or in cho company of those whom she had gathered together. Subsequently, ib was to her that most of his letters were addressed, and it was to her house tbab he invariably hastened on each of his visits to Paris. The financial transactions between the two were of the most complicated nature, for while on bhe one hand the Government , possesses ample evidence to prove that Boulanger, while Minister of War, supplied his friend with State moneys taken from- tho Secret Service Fund, there are numerous documents showing that the. General had dipped freely in the lady's purse, and that he had borrowed large portions of her ill-gotten wealth in order to be able to carry on his social and political campaign. _ . So hasty was her flight from Tours, where she has been residing: lately, that she had no time to destroy her papers, which are now in the hands of the Government. Among them were numerous receipts and promissory notes of Boulanger, engaging himself to repay double the sums borrowed as soon as he"had established himself as supreme head of the Government in President Carnot's stead. , ■ . • There are also numbers of Boulanger s letters beginning "My Darling Juliette." There were also numerous photographs of bhe General signed "Thy loving Ernesb' and "Thy libtle Ernest," while another large portrait, representing the well-known features of Prince Napoleon, yclept PlonPloni bore the inscription "To my dear JBlfette, from her affectionate Jerome Bonaparte, January 2nd, 1882."